He had an outstanding record as a legislator since the start of his career in the House in 1913, the 63d Congress.

* 1974 – At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

The record for the highest career OBP by a hitter, based on over 3000 plate appearances, is. 482 by Ted Williams.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

Federko continued his career with the Saskatoon Blades of the WHL where he set and still holds the team record for assists.

On March 19, 1988, Federko became the 22nd NHL player to record 1000 career points.

* St. Louis Blues team record for career games played ( 927 )

* St. Louis Blues team record for career assists ( 721 )

* St. Louis Blues team record for career points ( 1073 )

* St. Louis Blues team record for career playoff assists ( 66 )

England were out and, after a record 106 caps and 49 goals, Charlton decided to end his international career at the age of 32.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.

With these innings he became the second player to score two Test triple centuries, the second player to score two career quadruple centuries, the only player to achieve both these milestones, and regained the distinction of being the holder of both the record first-class individual innings and the record Test individual innings.

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

During his career with the Panthers, Capers finished with an overall record of 31 – 35 ( including the playoffs ) and one division title.

Placekicker Kevin Butler holds the club record for scoring the most points in his ten-year Bear career.

Payton holds the team record for career rushing yards with 16, 726.

Halas holds the team record for coaching the most seasons with 40 and for having the most career victories of 324.

On December 20, 2010, Hester set an NFL record for most touchdowns on a punt or kickoff return with his 14th career return coming against the Minnesota Vikings.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

Displacing Ur-Zababa, Sargon was crowned king, and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest.

The paparazzi preyed upon her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career.

Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France ( reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d ' Albret, sister of John III of Navarre ), in the course of the Italian Wars.

His career spanned sixty-six years, and upon his death he was buried in grand style between his two wives.

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

' The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of ' my pamphlet ' ( he called it ), as it was sure to have in the future a good influence upon his career.

Ironically, the loss of his priesthood had allowed him to pursue a military career, as the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.

According to Edmund Gosse, his father's career was destroyed by his " strange act of wilfulness " in publishing Omphalos ; Edmund claimed his father had " closed the doors upon himself forever.

Fabian of the Yard was a television series filmed and transmitted by the BBC between 1954 and 1956, based upon the career of the by then retired Detective Inspector Robert Fabian.

Reduced to despair, he says, by the curse laid upon him by Peter, Simon embarked on the career that has been described:

While attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Romero embarked upon his career in the film industry.

Subsequently, Sharkey embarked upon a brief, but commercially successful solo career in the mid-to late-1980s.

“ Throughout his career Capra depended upon his skill as an editor to achieve the contrast of the individual and the group, critical in the success of his Hollywood movies .” Capra thought it would be most effective to use the enemy ’ s original film and propaganda in the series in order to expose the enemies with their own images.

In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party.

Grace never went to university as his father was intent upon him pursuing a medical career.

* The Broadway plays, musicals, and movies based upon the book Gigi are about a young Parisian girl who is being trained to be a courtesan by her great-aunt, a retired career courtesan herself.

Though for some time he resisted the change, he finally entered upon his new career between 1205 and 1210.

As his career evolved, however, Ravel was again called upon to play his own piano music, and to conduct his larger works, particularly during a tour, both of which he considered chores in the same mold as " circus performances ".

A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire ( 1784 – 1812 ).

Rand's creating of the negative fictional character of Peter Keating required her to draw exclusively upon the negative aspects of Hood's career as she perceived it.

Newcomers to the profession would often start their careers in this fashion, and members would not only gain a foundation upon which to base a career, but, apart from the apprentices who might even pay for the experience, also be sure of a steady income for one or more " seasons ".

Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, a secondary school pupil ( and later university student ) whose constant care for her mother has left her a bitter cynic.